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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

Bertolt Brecht

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right

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